SanteeFats
You have some thousand year old entity who uses lightening to kill people. Why is not explained. Some guy shows up whose son was killed by this being and after being hit by the lightening he is immune to it. He builds a lightening rod structure on the top of a building trying to trap this being in a never ending void. There is also a woman whose son has been killed to open the movie and she is also immune. She has even faced the killer. There is the professor and his team who are tracking the storms but do not believe in the entity, well one does towards the end. He brings the shielded generator to the roof top because the one they have is not shielded. Kevin Sorbo plays the sheriff which is why I watched this movie. I really enjoy watching him. Anyway the contraption works, the killer is trapped in the void along with the old man. The mayor is a real piece of work. Typical smarmy small town politician. Not a bad movie all in all.
scorpivs
When I can't decide whether something is cliché, or if it's classic, I term it 'clichassic.' That much having been said, I found the dialogue of "Lightning Strikes" to be refreshingly unoffensive yet current, conscious and stirring, and the furthest thing from 'canned.' This is particularly important in an industry plagued with nonsensical artifices such as 128 mph kicks to the face at approximately .03 cm per second enhanced or replaced by an over-priced piece of software and a cameraman who can't hold still. For that matter, anyone who enjoys B-movies on the face value of laughing at B-movies would understand what I mean when I say this feature did not have me laughing. On the remote chance it is but a string of over-spun network-surplused-chatter -- which I am not suggesting nor do I have any reason to believe, it certainly is worth watching ... and at worst, well-conceived. A good 'listen.' That it has Kevin Sorbo in a serious part is simply a good sign and a healthy indicator of the state of the 'entertainment' industry. I fully intend to not only add "Lightning Strikes" to my personal collection, but to watch it again. Enjoy!
another_fake_shemp
I found this film was like a roller coaster of emotions. Will lightning strike? Will it be blue lightning? Is it going to split a car in two. Is it going to kill that boy? Will a generator with a lot of negativity allow the rod to conduct electricity? Is it really an alien living in "lightning space" who comes down in bolts and murders hapless people? All these questions were answered perfectly well in this straight to TV movie, and these are questions that I have often asked myself in my 34 years of life.Unfortunately, the question "why this town" was never answered, but thankfully, we are left open for a sequel whereby Donovan fights the alien dude in the lightning realm.
Terry McCombs
I have watched a lot of movies in my life, and from the biggest A productions, to quickie drive-in fodder from the 50's, to quirky little independent films, and Lightning Strike is without a doubt the silliest film I have ever seen! And I mean that in a bad way.I don't know where to start, the bad acting, the bad writing, the ham handed "character development," the fact that it's sort of a steal, bordering on a parody of Jaws, only with "a lightning storms a comin'" instead of a great white shark, or the seemingly endless scenes of Sheriff Hercules trying to talk the mayor to get people out of town because "a lightning storms a comin'" and getting people indoors would do no good, we have to get them out of town (storms don't happen outside of town?) so many times I thought the film had looped back about 20 minutes and started again.Perhaps it's that according to his film you can dodge lightning if you see it coming first, I think that's the main thing that broke the needle on my silly meter.Alright, alright I get it, the Saturday night Syfy movies are almost always dogs, and you know that coming into one and 19 times of out 20 you're going to end up getting just what you deserve for tuning in, but this puppy I fear abused that privilege.
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